There are 178 entries in the GLOSS*arama starting with the letter P.

Entries 1 through 35:

• p-e ratio
• packaging
• paper currency
• paper economy
• par value
• paradox of thrift
• Pareto efficiency
• Pareto improvement
• part-time workers
• partnership
• patent
• paternalism
• payment flow
• payroll tax
• peak
• per unit tax
• perception
• perfect competition
• perfect competition and demand
• perfect competition and efficiency
• perfect competition and short-run supply curve
• perfect competition characteristics
• perfect competition, factor market analysis
• perfect competition, long-run adjustment
• perfect competition, long-run equilibrium conditions
• perfect competition, long-run production analysis
• perfect competition, loss minimization
• perfect competition, marginal analysis
• perfect competition, profit analysis
• perfect competition, profit maximization
• perfect competition, realism
• perfect competition, revenue division
• perfect competition, short-run production analysis
• perfect competition, shutdown
• perfect competition, total analysis

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Seven economic statistics that tend to move up or down a few months AFTER business-cycle expansions and contractions. Most importantly, these measures indicate peak and trough turning points about three to twelve months after they occur. Lagging economic indicators are one of three groups of economic measures used to track business-cycle activity. The other two are coincident economic indicators and leading economic indicators.

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Our pedestrian's jaunt through the economy is not, unfortunately, an unrestrained shopping spree for confectioneries, spark plug tools, and Houston, Texas. We have other important errands to run. At the moment we need to hike over to Shady Valley's exclusive provider of cable television services, the Merciless Monolithic Media Masters Cable Television Company, Inc., to inquire about a mysterious fee that appeared last month's bill.

The good news is that the Merciless Monolithic Media Masters (the 4M people) Cable office is a mere 2 miles (3 kilometers for the metrically inclined) from the Shady Valley Central Town Sprawling Hills Shopping Mall. A hop, skip, and a moderately long jump later, our excursion through the economy takes us to the front door of the 4M Cable Television Company where I hope to discover why last month's cable bill included a $3,569 charge for something called "The Vacation Channel." I didn't even know I had a vacation channel. (But, I'm sure it's a great channel, and if I don't have it, then I will certainly subscribe. Please don't disconnect me.)

Of course, because this an afternoon workday, the doors of the 4M office are locked. I can almost make out, through the expensive stained glass windows, what appears to be several Merciless Monolithic Media Masters Cable Television employees, with champaign bottles in hand, dancing on expensive mahogany desks. Let's not disturb them. As they say in the cable business, an upset worker is a disconnected customer.
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